"Adam Ruppe" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > One of the (few) things I like about PHP is the ease with which you > can get to the docs. You can just put the name into your browser, and > it comes right up: > > php.net/strpos > > I set up something similar for D today: dpldocs.info. (I tried to find > a better name, but everything else I thought up was already taken.) > > dpldocs.info/std.string.indexOf > > Will automatically redirect you to the right place on the Digital Mars > website. I do this with a simple script manipulating the string. You > have to do a full name - std.string.chop rather than just chop. > > Future directions for it would be to make it a smart searcher, so you > wouldn't need to use perfect fully qualified names anymore. It would > be nice to have a category listing of functions in Phobos too, so you > can find things without knowing the module or function names. > > But, I'm short on time, so the simple redirect is all I'll have for now.
Sounds great! Another neat thing would be jumping to documentation on D's predefined tokens, identifiers and operators. I can't tell you how many times I've gone nuts trying to search for the documentation on "is"!
